Splitting movie encoded with divX 4.12 ???

[stanky]

I ripped a movie using gordian knot and used the divX 4.12 codec. I am now trying to take a section out of the movie using virtual dub. Whenever I do this, the result is the movie segment where the audio plays, but the video is clipping badly. I'm doing direct stream copy for the video and the audio. Is this just something that has to do with the codec? I know it sets keyframes up by scenes, not by time... maybe that screws it up? :confused:

Thanks for any help you might have

Stanky

[Swede]

Do you want to keep the part you cut out? Or do you want to remove it from the avi?

If you want to keep it you *must* start at a keyframe (so the clip has something to start with) but if you want to cut it out you *must* end at the frame before a keyframe, you can't just delete frames in between keyframes since every 'nonkeyframe' is dependent of the one before.

[stanky]

Thanks swede, but I have that part down. I am actaully splitting a movie into smaller viewable parts.

What I've done in the past to circumvent this problem is recompress the rip with virtual dub using the low motion codec and then done all my splitting. Splitting any of my original rips done through gordian knot yields choppy playback... really choppy. I was wondering if working with the 4.12 codec was a common probem for virtual dub, or just a problem for my system.

Thanks again swede
:)

Stanky

[Swede]

Splitting any of my original rips done through gordian knot yields choppy playback... really choppy
Very strange... Could it be an audio/video problem? If you remove the audio from the clip is it still choppy? I don't understand why a clip that works would start to 'chop' when you just extract it. Have you tried one of the clips on another machine?

[stanky]

Hello again Swede...

I'll try it without any audio tonight, and also on another machine if I can get one together... I think I have a 450 buried somewhere.

Thanks again :)

Stanky